Peace Officer Party

Iriael · April 23, 2023

Peace Officer Party

Protect and serve us all

History

The peace officer was founded by Sayaka Yukimura in 2022, as a way to encourage LEO participation and representation in SAGOV work. It is her view that those who enforce the laws on a daily basis have the experience and opinions on how to best improve it for the state. The party was officially registered with the state in preparation for the April 2023 elections, with the goal to defend its current candidate and find future ones that can represent the party's ideals. While new candidates were not found, the party successfully defending representative Yukimura's seat on the Law Review Committee.

Goals

Find candidates for future election cycles

Fund-raise for future election cycles

Defend currently occupied seats

Lease an official office from SAGOV

Establish an permanent office owned by the party

Shape the SAGOV Penal code for the better

Party Structure

Party Chair

The party chair leads the party as a whole, and represents the party in its entirety. They are responsible for ensuring events are held, the representative are active in their duties, and all duties by other leaders are fulfilled.

Party Vice Chair

The party vice chair is the second in command, and represents the party when the chair is on leave. They are responsible organizing internal ranks, and concerns brought to the party.

Secretary

The secretary is primarily responsible for collecting and collating community feedback, both from members and the community at large.

Treasurer

The treasurer is primarily responsible for making sure all expenses and raised funds are appropriately logged, and accounted for.

Representative

Any actively serving representative who does not hold any of the party leadership ranks above will hold this rank.

Senior Member

Any member who has actively contributed to the party's needs over an extended period of time will be recognized as a senior member. Any senior members the party considers viable for election, and either has chose not to run or did not win their seat for whatever reason.

Member

A member is a line member who has pledged to vote for each election cycle for the running party members, and has contributed in some meaningful way to progressing its goals.

Junior Member

A junior member the starting rank for anyone interested in helping the party, but has not yet proven themselves.

Recruitment

Recruitment is handled in-person by party leadership. A passion for politics, and a willingness for paperwork are musts for any member of the party. Community feedback is always welcomed, regardless of party membership.

- You must have at least 5000 experience on the character you are applying with.
- You need to have a clean admin record of at least 21 days from when you submit your application.
- You need to be serving as a first responder (PD, SD, DOC, MD) or have been honorable discharged as one.

Iriael · April 27, 2023

Ad-ggressive Questions

Sayaka woke up and checked through her emails, both work and personal, finding the following email in her inbox from Weazel News:

She rolled her eyes initially, and mulled over the questions for a bit wondering just how pointed they could be. She reminded herself however, that when it came to politics, all news is good news even if the article paints her as completely unreasonable. She gave the number a quick ring, and to her surprise, the Weazel employee picked up. She offered an interview, and agreed to come down to Weazel News for one, much to the reporter's surprise. She smirked to herself, enjoying catching the reporter mildly off guard.

Dressed in proper attire for the interview, she showed up at Weazel, made introductions, and started it off with the usual disclaimers: "I don't speak for the Law Review Committee, nor the Los Santos Police Department, my opinions are my own. I can only provide statements as representative and chairwoman of the Peace Officer Party." The two made conversation, with Sayaka regretting not writing down statements beforehand, but spoke from her heart on the topics. The two found common ground on wanting to work through the public resolution and bill suggestions. By the end of the interview Sayaka could only hope she made herself seem more human to Weazel, and that the article wouldn't be too scathing. Weazel seemed to have an agenda saying the election wasn't fair, but as she kept re-iterating, the party wanted to put more candidates up but could not find any willing to commit to the job fully. She wanted to convey disappointment, not guilt, that she had won by default.

Regardless, Sayaka looked forward to reading the article, and enjoying whatever response it might provoke. She had to remind herself that attention brings votes, not IA reports this time around.

Iriael · May 3, 2023

Starting the Work

After May 1st came and went Sayaka sat down, and started to go through the public suggestions inbox, looking to make good on a campaign promise she made to the party itself. She started with the first two, both submitted through Emily Whitehorse, as a test of the system. There was a small laugh, as she recognized them both as her own suggestions from the years past, and considered it more than enough to sponsor them.

With the easy and public facing part done, the annoying part was to get the format correct. Sayaka was glad she had experience dealing with incomprehensible formats when dealing with Search Warrants, and slowly put together the language into sections, subsections and paragraphs. A few days later, she was content with the work, and submitted H.R 2 to Emily, her official first bill in the system.

The other bills would need party attention and assistance, but Sayaka smiled as she got the first one in the door. The rest of the suggestions could come in time, and there would be plenty of her own ideas to work on.